The only reason I see to NOT allow others to use your content is risk of loss of control over it as well as the right of authorship. Ensure you're attributed and that they don't take use than a snippet of your material (a link back to your original content is optimal).

My guess? Probably spam. Would you want your blog to be associated with the blog of someone who writes like that? If I were you I'd say no. Well, I'd make extravagant fun of them for asking without offering dollars, demand ten bucks a word, and then say no anyway.

@R.T.C.N. well I guess at least they asked you first.
I thought just once about reblogging, when I saw something I particularly liked,
but I didn't go ahead because I didn't feel right about it, so I just set up a page with links to other people's blog posts, which I can now add to whenever I find something i like; I prefer to do it this way.

Reblogging can be done ethically: look at BoingBoing: everything there started as a post somewhere else. But it's tricky. I've quoted from sites and linked to them and found, in the comments section, complaints from those bloggers that I didn't give them credit. Well, what more do you want other than a link with your name in it???

@readytochangenow
Have no fear. You blog is well organized, very clean and easy to navigate. Your writing is excellent and you are building a blogging community of reglaur commenters. You are on the right track - go girl go!

Looks like you're mistaken on the purpose of Creative Commons. CC licenses exist to give other people the right to copy works without having to ask for permission. Many artists release music under these licenses so other artists can remix them, put them in Youtube videos, etc.

Not to belabor the point- but does my original submission have no effect? I just found this on the CC forum:

You cannot retrospectively remove a Creative Commons license you voluntarily placed on your work, you can release subsequent editions/publications with a different or no license, but any versions the originate from the original CC license will continue to remain with that license.

There was never a "submission". All they did was give you a custom badge for your website. :)

Don't worry about that clause right there: That means if you put something under CC, and it becomes popular because people were allowed to share it, you aren't allowed to change your mind three months later and sue everyone. It's a way to stop less-respectable folks from pulling a bait-and-switch on their audience.

Just because there was a badge on your website for a few hours doesn't mean anything. :)

Don't hesitate to ask me questions about CC. I live for this sorta thing. ^^

Picasso was asked if all the fake Picassos floating around bothered him and he said no, not at all. "Because that is the greatest thing they will ever paint, and tomorrow I will wake up and I will still be Picasso."

Once the hyperventilation period is over it all gets better from there. Most people start out with maximum lockdown on their sites, eg no reblogging, nothing. They gradually loosen up as they realize nothing can go viral if they don't let it off its chain, but in the meantime they educate themselves on ways to keep the credit. It takes time.